My Blueberry Nights is the first film shot in English by Wong Kar Wai.
Elizabeth, a girl with a broken heart, leaves New York to start a journey of emotional healing around the States; she...
"My Blueberry Nights" by Wong Kar Wai (2008)
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Showing posts with label Drama. Show all posts
9/08/2013
9/02/2013
"Manderlay" by Lars Von Trier (2005)
Manderlay is the second instalment of Lars Von Trier's thought-provoking trilogy "USA - Land of Opportunities". The story starts exactly where Dogville ended. Grace, her father, and their bunch...
7/06/2013
"The Iron Giant" by Brad Bird (1999)
The Iron Giant tells the story of the fall into Earth of an alien giant robot, and his relation with a naughty child who lives with his single mother in a small town in the States.
The movie...
6/15/2013
"Chaotic Ana" by Julio Medem (2007)
Ana (Manuela Vallès), a young hippy talented painter living in Ibiza, is discovered by Justine (Charlotte Rampling), an Arts Patron who invites her to join an independent Arts school. Ana's first...
6/02/2013
"Garage" by Lenny Abrahamson (2007)
Garage is a movie about the life of Josie, a simple-minded good-hearted somewhat-autistic gas-station caretaker who craves affection and social interaction in an isolated Irish rural town. The script ...
3/31/2013
"Crash" by Paul Haggis (2004)
A single event in somebody's life can have repercussions in many others. That is the point of departure of this post-modern holistic view of human interrelations in a modern multicultural multiracial...
3/27/2013
"Mr. Nobody" by Jaco Van Darmael (2009)
** Warning - This review may contain spoilers. I recommend watching the movie and then coming here, especially if the ending intrigues you, and it will **
Mr Nobody is the story of Nemo, whose...
3/03/2013
"Caramel" by Nadine Labaki (2007)
Caramel is a Lebanon-France co-production with a charming story of female love, friendship and ageing. The story focus on the love lives of a group of young and middle-age Beiruti women who are regulars...
1/13/2013
"The Lovely Bones" by Peter Jackson (2009)
The movie is based on Alice Seabold's eponymous book, which I read a few years ago and I absolutely loved. If you have not read the book, you will certainly watch the movie with different eyes. Unfortunately,...
11/04/2012
"Antichrist" by Lars Von Trier (2009)
Antichrist tells the story of a couple's grief after the death of their child, their progressive alienation from reality, and their descend to a personal hell, especially after they retreat to their...
9/21/2012
"Cold Souls" by Sophie Barthes (2009)
Cold Souls is a comedy of the absurd with some surrealist and existentialist touches, and a philosophical query on the nature of the soul.
The film departs from a quote from Descartes that...
"Nobody Knows" by Hirokazu Koreeda (2005)
Nobody Knows tells the story of a group of four siblings before and after their abandonment by their mother.The movie is magical and poetical, but also heartbreakingly hard, from the first scenes...
9/08/2012
"Irreversible" by Gaspar Noé (2002)
Irreversible is a very confronting raw and violent French movie that tells the story, in reverse chronological order, of a serious of violent events happened during the return home of the female protagonist...
8/26/2012
"Little Miss Sunshine" by Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris (2006)
Little Miss Sunshine is a road movie about a dysfunctional family trying to take their seven-year-old Olive to an interstate beauty pageant from Alburquerque NM to Redondo Beach CA in their yellow...
8/05/2012
"Agora" by Alejandro Amenábar (2009)
A biopic loosely based on the story of the great Late-Roman female Philosopher, Astronomer and Mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria.
Most movies about the
Roman Empire are unsubstantial, entertaining...
7/29/2012
"Intimacy" by Patrice Chéreau (2001)
Intimacy is a European co-production directed by French director Patrice Chereau in his first English speaking feature, also set in the UK. The script is based on two pieces by writer Hanif Kureishi:...
7/21/2012
"Let the Right One In" by Tomas Alfredson (2008)
A Swedish romance and horror film based on the eponymous novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who also wrote the script.
Let the Right One In tells the story of the friendship between Oskar, a 12y.o....
7/15/2012
"Match Point" by Woody Allen (2005)
Match Point is a UK-USA-Ireland-Russia Co-production, mostly shot in London, and directed by Woody Allen.The story revolves about a love triangle between young retired tennis player turned businessman...
7/05/2012
"Mary and Max" by Adam Elliot (2009)
Web of the Movie
A wonderful Australian independent plasticine movie that tells the story of a life-long mail relationship between Max Jerry Horowitz, an old autistic atheist Jew from New York, and...
